communication - something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups

dead language - a language that is no longer learned as a native language

words - language that is spoken or written; "he has a gift for words"; "she put her thoughts into words"

source language - a language that is to be translated into another language

target language, object language - the language into which a text written in another language is to be translated

accent mark, accent - a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation

sign language, signing - language expressed by visible hand gestures

artificial language - a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose

metalanguage - a language that can be used to describe languages

native language - the language that a person has spoken from earliest childhood

natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

interlanguage, lingua franca, koine - a common language used by speakers of different languages; "Koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times"

linguistic string, string of words, word string - a linear sequence of words as spoken or written

expressive style, style - a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"

barrage, onslaught, outpouring - the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written)

speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication, oral communication, speech, language - (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"

slanguage - language characterized by excessive use of slang or cant

alphabetize - provide with an alphabet; "Cyril and Method alphabetized the Slavic languages"

descriptive, synchronic - concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; "synchronic linguistics"; "descriptive linguistics"

diachronic, historical - used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time; "diachronic linguistics"